An Inspector General report on a July breach at the Department of Energy points the finger at a number of technical and management missteps that facilitated the theft of personal data on 104,000 people.

An employee at University of Washington Medicine in Seattle may have exposed the personal information of more than 90,000 Harborview Medical Center and University of Washington Medical Center patients.

An identity theft service selling Social security numbers, credit and background check reports, used a botnet to infect and steal data from brokers such as LexisNexus, Dun & Bradstreet and Kroll Background America.

A modern smartphone is a full-blown working tool, an entertainment center and a tool to manage your personal finances. The more it can do, the more attractive it is to cybercriminals. The evidence for...

Cybercriminals go at great lengths to throw researchers off their scent, but just like in the "offline" crime world they make errors and leave peculiar traces behind, making them look a bit silly, whi...

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